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Good to hear you guys enjoyed the run, it was a good turnout considering the amount of other things happening this weekend, and everyone was really well behaved too, yay Props to those who travelled long distances to meet up at Amberley, and also to the Toowoomba locals for popping in and saying hello at the bbq. Oh, a huge thanks to Cookie for driving me around - as much as I would have liked to have taken the 33 out, it was kinda nice being a passenger for once, and there are plenty worse ways of getting around than in the pimpin 34 :Pimp: Pfft, soft Oh no, picture of me... cooking!!! Eek! Cookie wasn't doing what it looks like, honest...

My dad's plates were stolen from out in front of the local police station... middle of the day, and I mean RIGHT IN FRONT. Definitely report them, my dad's were spotted on a stolen car a couple of hours later.

Umm... 1) Throwing the occasional Japanese word in each post does NOT make you cool. You'd be surprised how many people speak a little Japanese, and how many others are either fluent or native speakers. Get over it. At least learn how to use the Japanese IME. 2) l33t-speak (or SMS-speak) is in a similar boat. Its reali fkn crp 2 rd n maikz u l00k lk a f00l. 3) It's his car, if the man likes the way his car looks then good on him. That is all. SLY Welcome to SAU

I nearly always pull over to help, whether it be any type of car, a bike, two hot chickies with an RX2, whatever. I'm just a nice bloke, haha The only time I don't stop is if I honestly can't spare the time, ie I really need to be somewhere. I've only ever broken down once (in my old Commodore) and I got the shits on REAL bad because of the people that acknowledged the fact that I was there, a third of them pointed and laughed, and the rest beeped and got abusive (wtf???) I pulled over to help some guys in an R32 one time in Brisbane, they started paying out my R33 because I apparently hadn't modified it enough for their liking, then gave me shit because apparently driving a Skyline newer than theirs meant I was a snob and thought I was better than them etc. Rather than risk being up for assault charges, I left them stranded in the middle of the CBD without telling them that the plug to the ignitor pack had fallen off. I saw it getting loaded onto a tow truck on my way back out of the city, so hopefully their attitude cost them a fair bit in transport and mechanical bills

I'll be there obviously. My situation has changed fairly drastically since I first took up the position of Secretary, so despite a continuing enthusiasm for the club and Skylines in general, my position is up for grabs too. I unfortunately have neither the time nor the financial resources to continue as one of the execs, though I'll be more than happy to help out where required. For those thinking about becoming an exec, I encourage you to do so. Just remember that it does require a lot of time and a bit of your own money for it to work

Not afaik, but they're not really any different to any other manual RWD car. In a nutshell: * Remove interior trim around shifter. * Unbolt steel bit that hold the shifter in place. * Pop circlip out of the bottom of the shifter, then the shifter will come out. * Go under the car, undo the tailshaft (both on the GTR), remove speedo cable/clutch slave and the plug or two (can't remember) that's on top of the box. * Support the gearbox (we have a gearbox stand but a jack with a stable top will do) * Remove bellhousing bolts. * Slid gearbox directly back, and out of the clutch setup. * Unbolt the pressure plate from the flywheel. The clutch plate is in the middle. * Replace clutch/pressure plate and machine flywheel as required. If you get oil on the surfaces, clean them with brake cleaner. * Put the clutch back together, trying to centre the clutch plate over the hole in the centre of the flywheel. Note that the flywheel and pressure plate (iirc) only go on one way, so don't be alarmed if the holes don't line up the first time Just keep rotating them until it all works. * Reverse the rest of the process to put everything else back together. That's from memory after doing half a dozen Skyline clutches, it should be pretty close Edit: Just looked at the site in your sig. Hell yeah

Yeah we get decent sized spiders at my place all the time, it's an old 2-storey wooden place so there's heaps of places for them to hide and they've had many many years to do so. It's pretty common for us to get spiders the size of my palm, and not surprising to occasionally find one nearly as big as my whole hand. It's farkin excellent when we have exchange students... :bahaha: When Mum's rellies from England came here a few years back, they spotted a daddy long legs, crapped themselves a bit but after an hour or so they were OK. Then one of them spotted a huntsman (one of the biggish ones that goes out about one knuckle from the palm) on the wall in the bathroom and they very nearly booked into a hotel lmao @ 4ds, funny stuff mate Haha nerd

Nah that's how I generally read the forums too... I just hit 'new posts' (actually I have a shortcut setup for it) and read from there. If new classifieds could be included in these searches that'd be great

When bone stock, my R33 was beaten by a mate's manual MX6 (exhaust with dump, 12psi, k&n panel). After I got an exhaust and a wastegate bleed, I kicked his butt everywhere, we tried rollons from 100km/h, 60km/h, up to the speed limiter, basically everything except a standing start (they're frowned upon on a circuit ) and the 33 would just walk away. In the end he had 135kw@w (but bucketloads of torque), and the 33 would still toast him unless we did 3rd at 60 or something, then he'd get a bit of a lead before the 33 got into its stride. Limbo, Dan's talking about his NA R34, before he put the turbo on. They're a fair bit quicker than the NA R32's.

Thought they looked tough

R33 fitment is IDENTICAL to AU (and BA I think) Falcon, and no doubt plenty of others. 5x114.3, +20 offset iirc. Ford steelies are common on the back of Nissans at the drags, and R33 wheels are common fitment on R32s, same goes for 34 wheels on 33s and 180SXs etc. They will bolt up, but I'd be checking guard clearances on GTSt's on the front. It might be OK, but I'd be checking it anyway Are they your new mags in the background?

Nah, he'd probably just be involved in a crash caused by one of the numerous other, almost un-enforced dangers of driving, or by someone who is either too busy watching their speedo to notice traffic, or is of the growing-in-popularity mentality that if they're not speeding, nothing can happen to them. Isn't Victoria's road toll the highest in years, despite having harsher than ever speed enforcement?

rodhog - I'd be editing your 3rd and 5th paragraphs.

And they'd need to budget for a couple of boxes of spare CV's, they go through them like there is no tomorrow if you drive them 'enthusiastically'

Yep, if you're going to turn, then TURN, don't stuff around in the middle of the road (or even the opposite side) and then cut across the turn lane! And if you're turning left then turn left, not right THEN left! Your car is NOT a B double, you don't to swing out to make the corner! And take that bloody stupid fluffy steering wheel cover off!! Actually at the roundabout above the Ipswich Motorway (at the end of the Centenary), I saw a retard in a VT nearly get cleaned up by a large truck. As you come off the roundabout to head back toward Ipswich, you've got that 270° left hand turn, a truck with a rather large trailer (might have been two, one small one large, don't remember) was in the outside lane and the Commy took the left. The truck obviously needed a fair amount of the road to take the corner, but the Commy driver panicked, slammed on the brakes and beeped and gave the finger etc to the truckie for cutting into their lane... they have a 'do not overtake turning vehicle' sign on the back for a reason As I passed the truck on the straight, I looked in and he was laughing his head off, I gave him the thumbs up

I'm not really that worried about it. She'd left the roundabout and rejoined, so apart from what she did being illegal, she should have adhered to the "give way to all traffic on the roundabout" rule. She didn't. I only started to pass her as she left the roundabout. Probably a bit hard to explain without a picture, which I cbf doing, so I'll leave it at that. Haha that happens to me all the time!! Either that or they don't indicate at all and just sit there waiting for a gap, and you're sitting behind them thinking "wtf are you waiting for?? Oh you're turning, nice indicator retard". Or the people that hold up traffic doing 80 on the highway, and then come past you in a 60 zone... still doing 80... Mick, yer it's still not real easy to see the highway, it's OK on the bike or in the 33, but because of the poor visibility, if I'm in Mum's Excel it's very hard to match speed. It's not normally too bad though because traffic is nearly always doing 90-100 past there. I think the pollies are more worried about getting the bits of road outside their own houses absolutely perfect than making the rest of the roads driveable.

They're rated at 108kW @ fw actually, I have a few friends that are MX6 nuts They're a ridiculously torquey motor though, peak power isn't the full story.

Nah it's still crap, though I can't really say I've taken much notice of *where* the bumps are, I just avoid the bumps as they're coming because the roads around here get new ones almost every day. The onramp is pretty interesting on the bike though, with the short wheelbase and not much weight (except in the seat, hehe) the damn thing gets thrown all over the place if you hit those long corrugations. If I get bored I might go for a wander today... it'd be funny if she did actually hit all of these bumps

Haha I had a bloke road rage me one time a few years ago, back in my far less diplomatic days, he ended up being this tiny little shortarsed stick figure of a bloke, the type that'd blow away in a stiff breeze, 60kg max. He stomped over to my car, and after I'd finished laughing at him, I told him to get the $%@& back into his car before he got himself into trouble It reminded me of that bit in the 12th Man CDs where Tony says "no Bill, I think you'll find they're calling for TWO stretchers"

I had chrome plated plastic in my VC Commodore, which went better and felt safer than the two (!!!) Sonatas owned by my grandparents, and it cost me $900 and a carton of beer. Commodore doesn't sound French though, so it's not posh.

Mick Yeah that's the one! Some people fly through, others do like 5km/h... Daveo I see your point, though I do still believe that she would have been in the wrong given that she had basically left the roundabout and came back on from the wrong direction, up the onramp I got to give her a serve either way

daveo, it's a rather large roundabout - it's single lane but there is easily enough room for two as b-doubles often do u-turns there. She moved *all* the way over to the left and actually used a bit of the onramp, and she was indicating, so to me she was leaving the roundabout... until she swung the wheel and nearly ran into me. And when I say swung the wheel, it was like an emergency avoidance thing... maybe she HAD actually meant to turn off there, then suddenly changed her mind without thinking that perhaps she wasn't the only person in the universe on the road. I was on the very inside line (as I was still going around). It's not like I squeezed between her and the middle of the roundabout, there would have been a good 3m between us and she was heading toward the onramp until her sudden change of mind. I can see how it would sound suss if you don't know the area, but believe me, I've replayed it a couple of times in my head, and it was all legit from my end. Yeah I was a little stunned when she pulled over and made it clear she wanted me to do the same... she was about as likely to cop a hit in the head as I was to score a blowjob off the pope, but like you say, she didn't know that. Either way I got to give her a serve

Haha nah it was a silver Hyundai Sonata, she was a snooty bitch, one of those people that thinks that the Sonata isn't just another piece of cheap crap, it's actually right up there with an S-class Merc in "poshness" :bahaha:

The TH350 is an auto box (3 speed iirc), aka Turbo 350 or Turbo Hydramatic 350. It's pretty common in V8 drag racing circles. Sounds like it has a pretty big stall in it!!

The ones that annoy me the most are the ones (like the lovely lady above... you sure she's not from Ipswich? ) that genuinely think that they've done nothing wrong. It's amazing how they'll be involved in incident after incident, time after time, and not pick up the common denominator: THEM. And women who think that having kids in the car immediately makes them exempt from every road rule ever made and that every other road user is obliged to immediately stop and pull over. One from the other day: near my place there is a single lane roundabout that also happens to be very large (trucks use it alot - the middle of the three roundabouts between Tivoli and the Karalee turnoff on Mt Crosby Rd for those that know the area). Anyway I was following her, she indicated left just as she passed the road to Karana Downs and went really wide (as you do to turn onto the highway), so I started going up the inside of her, which is perfectly legal as she was indicating to turn off. She goes straight past the onramp and heads for the next turn, swinging the wheel hard in the process and nearly cleaning up the front of the Skyline in the process. I beeped at her, so she brake checked me (not real effective at 20km/h... moron) and pulled over, obviously wanting to discuss the situation. I obliged, and she gave me the line about "me endangering her children" and "young hoons" etc etc, I told her to learn how to drive, learn how to indicate, stop blaming other people for her idiotic driving, and said "if you stop driving like a f*ckwit your kids might see five". She got pretty stroppy and her kids started crying from all the yelling she was doing (which she blamed me for as well) which made her even more upset, I ended up just telling her to stfu and that she was a bigger threat to her children's safety than anyone else on the road and left shaking my head. To this day she probably still thinks that she was in the right. Or she's been cleaned up by someone else. I felt REALLY good after that though Anyway, you should try riding a bike in heavy traffic and see if you can keep count of the number of homocidal idiots you encounter. Okay that's a bit of an exaggeration; but at least a couple of times a week I have to take evasive action because some moron is about to halt my progress. On the rare occasion that you don't get someone who thinks that they're bigger therefore you'll move (or are just plain arrogant to everyone, regardless of vehicle), you can just about guarantee that they'll say "sorry mate, I didn't see you". Fantastic... that would've made any resulting accident FAR less severe you moron. My bike is a bright red, white and black colour scheme (see sig), has an aftermarket exhaust and, like most bikes in Australia, has a permanently-on headlight. So how exactly did you not notice me... or did you just not look? And yes, the tools that flick smokes out of the window piss me off too!! Grrr...